Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934814AbXHPL1W (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:27:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754828AbXHPL1M (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:27:12 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:42837 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755418AbXHPL1L (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:27:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:27:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Krzysztof Halasa cc: Anand Jahagirdar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fork Bombing Patch In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <25ae38200708152324t4cbadc24ge05cd75f8f0e60e4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 665 Lines: 20 On Aug 16 2007 13:19, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > >At least make that configurable - on some systems users are allowed >50 processes or so and I'm sure admins don't really want to know >which particular users are currently close to limits. > >I don't really find the above useful. Perhaps we should warn when users >try to write to R/O files or execute root-only commands etc? At least make that configurable. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/